Facets of Love
John G. Young, M.D.
Love gives you
what you always had,
but never knew--
yourself.
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Love protects the young
to allow their growing
and provokes the old
to keep them going.
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It matters
that you love,
whether you love
me or not.
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Love gives to us.
We own what we share.
It takes what we keep.
Now isn't that fair?
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The enjoyment of you
as you,
not the reflection of me
as me
is love's liberation of us
as we.